9/11 Cover-ups
Reported
In Media With Increasing Frequency

August
15, 2005

Dear friends,

The media
is reporting major 9/11 cover-ups with ever greater frequency. Below is
a compilation of the best articles from recent weeks. Note that most of these
sources are considered very reliable and links to the original articles are
provided when possible. The long, comprehensive article in the Daily Mail
is particularly important, as this populist British newspaper has the second
largest circulation of any English language newspaper in the world. This
is the second major article on 9/11 cover-ups that they've published (click
here for first), though for unknown reasons they didn't post either to
their website.

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More than
a year before the Sept. 11 attacks, a small, highly classified military intelligence
unit identified Mohammed Atta and three other future hijackers as likely members
of a cell of Al Qaeda operating in the United States, according to a former
defense intelligence official and a Republican member of Congress. In
the summer of 2000, the military team, known as Able Danger, prepared a chart
that included visa photographs of the four men and recommended to the military's
Special Operations Command that the information be shared with the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, the congressman, Representative Curt Weldon of Pennsylvania,
and the former intelligence official said Monday. The recommendation was rejected
and the information was not shared, they said, apparently at least in part
because Mr. Atta, and the others were in the United States on valid entry
visas.

The Sept.
11 commission was warned by a uniformed military officer 10 days before issuing
its final report that the account would be incomplete without reference to
what he described as a secret military operation that by the summer of 2000
had identified as a potential threat the member of Al Qaeda who would lead
the attacks more than a year later. Officials said that the information
had not been included in the report because aspects of the officer's account
had sounded inconsistent with what the commission knew about that Qaeda member,
Mohammed Atta, the plot's leader. The briefing by the military officer is
the second known instance in which people on the commission's staff were told
by members of the military team about the secret program, called Able Danger.
Al Felzenberg, who served as the commission's chief spokesman, said earlier
this week that staff members who were briefed about Able Danger at a first
meeting, in October 2003, did not remember hearing anything about Mr. Atta
or an American terrorist cell. On Wednesday, however, Mr. Felzenberg said
the uniformed officer who briefed two staff members in July 2004 had indeed
mentioned Mr. Atta.

In a forthcoming
book, the CIA field commander for the agency's Jawbreaker team at Tora
Bora, Gary Berntsen, says he and other U.S. commanders did know that bin Laden
was among the hundreds of fleeing Qaeda and Taliban members. Berntsen says
he had definitive intelligence that bin Laden was holed up at Tora Bora–intelligence
operatives had tracked him–and could have been caught. "He was there,"
Berntsen tells NEWSWEEK. In his book–titled "Jawbreaker"–the decorated
career CIA officer criticizes Donald Rumsfeld's Defense Department for not
providing enough support to the CIA and the Pentagon's own Special Forces
teams in the final hours of Tora Bora. (Berntsen would not divulge the book's
specifics, saying he's awaiting CIA clearance.) That backs up other recent
accounts, including that of military author Sean Naylor, who calls Tora Bora
a "strategic disaster" because the Pentagon refused to deploy a
cordon of conventional forces to cut off escaping Qaeda and Taliban members.

Towers that
fell 'like a controlled demolition'. Planes that vanished then mysteriously
reappeared, And crucial evidence that has been lost for ever. A new book raises
bizarre yet deeply unsettling questions about the world's worst terror atrocity.....

Note:
This is the longest, most thorough article on 9/11 cover-ups in the mainstream
media that we've seen. Click on the link above to read the full article. To
give an idea of the contents, below are the section titles of this eye-opening
article:

Did the CIA
actively help the hijackers?
'The fire wasn't hot enough to cause a collapse'
One expert said there were bombs inside the towers
Why didn't fighter planes intercept the hijackers?
The hole in the Pentagon was too small for a Boeing
The air force scrambled from the wrong base
So how did the passengers make those phone calls?

"Henshall
and Morgan say the...call for transparency is the thrust of their whole argument.
It is time, they say, for a full and truly independent inquiry into 9/11 that
will reveal all the facts and silence the rumours. With public trust one of
the major casualties of the war, can any of us be absolutely sure we have
not been caught up in a lie and perhaps a bigger one even than we ever though
possible? "

Love of country
led Sibel Edmonds to become a translator for the F.B.I. following 9/11. But
everything changed when she accused a colleague of covering up illicit activity
involving Turkish nationals. Fired after sounding the alarm, she's now fighting
for the ideals that made her an American, and threatening some very powerful
people. Edmonds has given confidential testimony inside a secure Sensitive
Compartmented Information facility on several occasions: to congressional
staffers, to investigators from the O.I.G., and to the staff from the 9/11
commission. Sources familiar with this testimony say that, in addition
to her allegations about the Dickersons, she reported hearing Turkish wiretap
targets boast that they had a covert relationship with a very senior politician
indeed – Dennis Hastert, Republican congressman from Illinois and Speaker
of the House since 1999. The targets reportedly discussed giving Hastert
tens of thousands of dollars in surreptitious payments in exchange for political
favors and information. "The Dickersons," says one official familiar
with the case, "are only the tip of the iceberg."

Note:
Sibel Edmonds is a courageous FBI whistleblower who is one of the great heroes
of the 9/11 movement. For more mainstream media reports on her case with links
to original sources provided, click here
and here.
For a nationally broadcast August 10th radio interview (written transcript
provided) of Ms. Edmonds describing her case, click
here. For an article on her own website describing how the FBI had clear
foreknowledge of 9/11, see http://justacitizen.com/articles_documents/FBI%20&%20911.htm

Rep. Cynthia
Mc­Kinney led a Capitol Hill hearing Friday on whether the Bush administration
was involved in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. "What we are
doing is asking the unanswered questions of the 9/11 families," McKinney,
a DeKalb County Democrat...said during the proceedings. The eight-hour
hearing, timed to mark the first anniversary of the release of the Sept. 11
commission's report on the attacks, drew dozens of contrarians and conspiracy
theorists who suggest President Bush purposely ignored warnings or may even
have had a hand in the attack – claims participants said the commission ignored.
"Congresswoman McKinney is viewed as a contrarian," panelist Melvin
Goodman, a former CIA official, said. "And I hope someday her views will
be considered conventional wisdom."

Note:
Other than this article and C-SPAN (see below), no major media covered this
important event. C-SPAN 2 will air the full hearing soon. See immediately
below for information on this. Many thanks to C-SPAN for being the only media
outlet that consistently reports on 9/11 information that should be making
headlines in all major media.

Note:
Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney has been one of the most outspoken critics
of the official 9/11 story. She has appeared numerous times on record exposing
cover-ups which reveal the complicity of rogue elements within the US government
in the 9/11 attacks. She chairs this Congressional forum which reveals some
of the disturbing 9/11 cover-ups on which our media has been so reluctant
to give proper coverage. Don't miss these two important forums on C-SPAN.
Mark your calendars for August 31st at 8 PM and September 2nd at 8 PM.

Families of
victims, former intelligence officials, and authors speak at a day-long forum
on the September 11 Commission Report, focusing on the methodology of the
investigation, recommendations made by the commission, causes of the attacks,
and government responses to the attacks.

What may be
a bigger scandal is that the staff of the 9/11 Commission knew of Able Danger
and what it had found, but made no mention of it in its report. This is as
if the commission that investigated the attack on Pearl Harbor had written
its final report without mentioning the Japanese. Mr. Weldon unveiled Able
Danger in a speech on the House floor June 27, but his remarks didn't attract
attention until the New York Times reported on them Tuesday. When the story
broke, former Rep. Lee Hamilton, a Democrat from Indiana, co-chairman of the
9/11 Commission, at first denied the commission had ever been informed of
what Able Danger had found, and took a swipe at Mr. Weldon's credibility:
"The Sept. 11th Commission did not learn of any U.S. government knowledge
prior to 9/11 of the surveillance of Mohammed Atta or his cell," Mr.
Hamilton said. "Had we learned of it obviously it would have been a major
focus of our investigation." Mr. Hamilton changed his tune after the
New York Times reported Thursday, and the Associated Press confirmed, that
commission staff had been briefed on Able Danger in October, 2003, and again
in July, 2004. The 9/11 commission wrote history as it wanted it to be, not
as it was. The real history of what happened that terrible September day has
yet to be written.

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